Re: [twitter-dev] Are unauthenticated API calls being counted twice against rate limits?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

This issue seems to have gone away, but I'm seeing other scattered  
symptoms on unauthenticated API rate limits.

1. 150 calls per "hour" and 150 calls remaining but time remaining  
much less than 3600 seconds - I've seen values as low as 1800 seconds.
2. Occasional instances of values *greater* than 3600 for time  
remaining. Largest value I've seen is 3624 seconds.

I haven't dug into the HTTP data yet - if these things come back I will.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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Quoting Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>:

Hi Ed,

Interesting. I'll investigate this.

Taylor

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:17 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <
zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote:

I've got a script that dumps a list of friends and followers for a user.
When I run it authenticated with oAuth, it behaves as expected:

limit: 350, remaining: 349, seconds_to_go: 3599, ratio: 1.00, sleep: 9.3
follower ids page 1 540 retrieved
xxxxxxxx has 540 followers
limit: 350, remaining: 348, seconds_to_go: 3590, ratio: 1.00, sleep: 10.6
friend ids page 1 748 retrieved
xxxxxxxx has 748 friends
limit: 350, remaining: 347, seconds_to_go: 3580, ratio: 1.00, sleep: 10.9
followers page 1 100 retrieved
limit: 350, remaining: 346, seconds_to_go: 3569, ratio: 1.00, sleep: 10.1
followers page 2 100 retrieved
limit: 350, remaining: 345, seconds_to_go: 3557, ratio: 1.00, sleep: 8.4
followers page 3 100 retrieved


But when I run it unauthenticated, it appears to be spending two calls for
every one that the script requires when authenticated:

limit: 150, remaining: 34, seconds_to_go: 840, ratio: 0.97, sleep: 24.0
follower ids page 1 540 retrieved
xxxxxxxx has 540 followers
limit: 150, remaining: 32, seconds_to_go: 815, ratio: 0.94, sleep: 47.0
friend ids page 1 748 retrieved
xxxxxxxx has 748 friends
limit: 150, remaining: 30, seconds_to_go: 768, ratio: 0.94, sleep: 48.0
followers page 1 100 retrieved
limit: 150, remaining: 28, seconds_to_go: 719, ratio: 0.93, sleep: 47.0
followers page 2 100 retrieved
limit: 150, remaining: 26, seconds_to_go: 671, ratio: 0.93, sleep: 47.0
followers page 3 100 retrieved


Is this something left over from when the rate limits were halved?
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul
Erdos